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    The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose: The Revelation of the Out-of-body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God
    The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose: The Revelation of the Out-of-body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God
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    THE FRAGRANCE OF THE MYSTICAL ROSE: THE REVELATION OF THE OUT-OF-BODY TRAVEL CELESTIAL MYSTERIES FROM THE ENCLOSED GARDEN OF GOD - The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose are those Out-of-Body Experiences which are beyond words and lie only within the energetic spheres of knowledge. The Revelation of the Celestial Mysteries is the admittance of such spheres into words and understanding. The Enclosed Garden of God are the Initiations and Rites of Passage within which the Mysteries of God’s Mercy become energetically embodied within the soul . . . and the energetic potential becomes realized as the old man transforms into the new ...
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    The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose: The Revelation of the Out-of-body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

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      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose - Marilynn Hughes

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose: The Revelation of the Out-of-body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose: The Revelation of the Out-of-Body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

      By Marilynn Hughes

      An Out-of-Body Travel Book

      The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

      http://outofbodytravel.org

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose

      The Revelation of the Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

      By Marilynn Hughes

      An Out-of-Body Travel Book

      The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

      http://outofbodytravel.org

      Copyright 2014, Marilynn Hughes

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work or portions thereof in any form whatsoever without permission in writing from the publisher and author, except for brief passages in connection with a review. 

      All credits for quotations are included in the Bibliography.

      For information, write to:

      The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

      http://outofbodytravel.org

      MarilynnHughes@outofbodytravel.org

      If this book is unavailable from your local bookseller, it may be obtained directly from the Out-of-Body Travel Foundation by going to www.outofbodytravel.org.

      Having worked primarily in radio broadcasting, Marilynn Hughes spent several years as a news reporter, producer and anchor before deciding to stay at home with her three children. She's experienced, researched, written, and taught about out-of-body travel since 1987. 

      Books by Marilynn Hughes:

      Come to Wisdom's Door

      How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience!

      Out-of-Body Experiences

      What you  Need to know

      The Hammer of Mysticism

      Encylopedic Journey into Mystical Processes and Terms

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose

      The Revelation of the Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

      The Mysteries of the Redemption

      A Treatise on Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism

      The Mysteries of the Redemption Series in Five Volumes

      (Same Book - Choose Your Format!)

      Prelude to a Dream

      Passage to the Ancient

      Medicine Woman Within a Dream

      Absolute Dissolution of Body and Mind

      The Mystical Jesus

      The Mysteries of the Redemption

      Prayer Book

      The Mysteries of the Redemption

      Devotional

      GALACTICA

      A Treatise on Death, Dying and the Afterlife

      THE PALACE OF ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE

      A Treatise on Ancient Mysteries

      Touched by the Nails

      (Watch and Wait)

      A Karmic Journey Revealed!

      Principles of THE WORLD BEYOND Death

      Books of Terror

      Evil Exists, it's Closer than you Think

      Based on the Visions of Mary Hughes

      By Marilynn Hughes

      Evergreen

      The Autobiography of a mystic

      The Mystical Captive

      The Mystical Freeborn

      The Royal Question

      The Solitary

      In my Aloneness, I Feel the Wind.

      It has Consciousness, it has Breath.

      And it Speaks.

      The EMISSARY

      Sister Silence as Sacrament

      Michael Jackson:

      The Afterlife Experiences

      A Theology of Michael Jackson's Life and Lyrics

      Michael Jackson:

      The Afterlife Experiences II

      Michael Jackson’s American Dream to Heal the World

      Michael Jackson:

      The Afterlife Experiences III

      The Confessions of Michael Jackson

      Comparative Religious Mystical Theology

      Out-of-Body Travel in World Religion

      Forgotten Mystics in World Religions

      Lesser Known Out-of-Body Experiences

      Selfishness and Self-Will

      The Path to Selflessness in World Religions

      A Life of Cultivation

      Near Death and Out-of-Body Experiences

      (Auspicious Births and Deaths)

      Of the Prophets, Saints, Mystics and Sages in World Religions

      The Voice of the Prophets

      Wisdom of the Ages - Volumes 1 - 12

      At the Feet of the Masters

      Teaching Stories of the Prophets in World Religions

      World Religions and their Prophets

      Miraculous Images:

      Photographs Containing God’s Fingerprints

      Suffering:

      The Fruits of Utter Desolation

      We are all Shadows

      The Overview Series

      The Oral Transmissions of the 52 Soto Zen Buddhist Ancestors

      The Doctors of the Catholic Church

      The General Councils of the Catholic Church

      Marian Apparitions in the Catholic Church

      Heresies in the Catholic Church

      Miraculous Phenomena in the Catholic Church

      Fascinating Figures in World Religion

      Practices, Prayer, Ritual, Liturgy, Sacraments and Theology in the Catholic Church

      Writers of the Philokalia

      Protestant Reforms

      Bridal Mysticism

      Mystic Knowledge Series:

      Out-of-Body Travel

      Ghosts and Lost Souls

      Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels

      Reincarnation and Karma

      Spiritual Warfare, Angels and Demons

      Death, Dying and the Afterlife

      Heaven, Hell and Purgatory

      ExtraTerrestrials

      Destiny and Prophecy

      Initiations into the Mysteries

      Visions of Jesus and the Saints

      Ascension

      Suffering and Sickness

      Mystical Poetry

      CHILDREN'S BOOKS

      The Former Angel! - A Children’s Tale

      (Ages 2 - 8)

      The Mystery of the Key to Heaven!

      (Ages 2 - 10)

      Streams in the Willow

      The Story of One Family’s Transformation from Original Sin

      Compilations

      Out-of-Body Travel and Near Death Experiences: Compiled Works through 2006

      World Religions and Ancient Sacred Texts: Compiled Compiled Works through 2006

      The Voice of the Prophets:

      Abridged Lesser Known Texts

      The Mystical Captive Series:

      A Trilogy in One Volume

      Michael Jackson’s Afterlife Experiences

      A Trilogy in One Volume

      The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journals

      Journal One:  The Importance of the Seven Virtues and Vices in Understanding the Practice of Out-of-Body Travel!

      Journal Two: My Out-of-Body Journey with Sai Baba, Hindu Avatar!

      Journal Three: The History of 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!'

      Journal Four: A Menage of Wonderful Writers and Artists!

      Journal Five: The Stories of Cherokee Elder, Willy Whitefeather!

      Journal Six: Discerning your Vocation in Life by Learning the Difference Between Knowledge and Knowing!

      Journal Seven: When Tragedy Strikes

      Journal Eight: Comparing the Buddhist Avalokiteswara's Descent into Hell with that of Jesus Christ!

      Journal Nine: Huzur Maharaj Sawan Singh - Sant Mat  (Sikh)  Master Guru and Grandson Maharaj Charan Singh - Sant Mat  (Sikh)  Master Guru

      Journal Ten: The Great Beyond

      Journal Eleven: Ghosts and Lost Souls: Our Responsibility

      Journal Twelve: The 800th Anniversary of Jalalludin Rumi, and the True Spiritual Heritage of Afghanistan and the Middle East

      Journal Thirteen: Pensatia – Forgotten Rosicrucian Mystic

      Journal Fourteen: Reverend John Macgowan – Forgotten Protestant Mystic

      Journal Fifteen: A. Farnese – Forgotten Mystic Amanuensis (to Franchezzo)

      Journal Sixteen: Comte St. Germain – Forgotten Immortal Mystic of the Mystery Schools

      Journal Seventeen:  Franz Hartmann – Forgotten Mystical Adept

      Journal Eighteen:  SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ –Forgotten Islamic Sufi Mystic

      Journal Nineteen:  Dionysius - Forgotten Christian Mystic of the Early Church

      Issue Twenty: Acvaghosha - Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the Mahayana Path

      Issue Twenty One: Bishop Shelemon of Armenia – Forgotten Nestorian Christian Mystic

      Issue Twenty Two: Abú Sa‘íd Ibn Abi ’l-Khayr– Forgotten Islamic Mystic

      Issue Twenty Three: Rev. G. Vale Owen - Forgotten Christian Mystic

      Issue Twenty Four: Swami Abhedânanda- Forgotten Hindu Mystic

      Issue Twenty Five: Moses Maimonides - Forgotten Jewish Mystic

      Issue Twenty Six: The Bab - Forgotten Baha’i Mystic

      Issue Twenty Seven: Shinran Shonin – Forgotten Mystic of Pure Land Buddhism

      Issue Twenty Eight: Bustan of Sadi – Forgotten Persian Islamic Mystic

      Issue Twenty Nine: John Bunyan – Forgotten Protestant Christian Mystic

      Issue Thirty:  Ixtlilxochitl and Nezahualcoyotl – Forgotten Aztec Mystics and Myth Bearers

      Mystics Magazine

      Issue One – Christian Mystical Theology, Conversations with Jacob Boehme

      Issue Two - Buddhist Mystical Theology, Conversations with Charaka and Acvagosha

      Issue Three – Islamic Mystical Theology, Conversations with Imam Ghazzali

      Issue Four – Egyptian Mystical Theology, Conversations with W. Marsham Adams

      Issue Five – Hindu Mystical Theology, Conversations with Sri Ramakrishna

      Issue Six – Jewish Mystical Theology, Conversations with Rabbi Simeon

      Issue Seven – Sikh Mystical Theology, Conversations with Guru Nanak

      Issue Eight – Zoroastrian Mystical Theology, Conversations with Charles William King

      Issue Nine – Bahai Mystical Theology, Conversations with Bahaullah

      Go to our Web-Site:

      The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!

      www.outofbodytravel.org

      CONTENTS:

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose

      The Revelation of the  Out-of-Body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

      By Marilynn Hughes

      A PREFACE IN WHICH IT IS MOST WISE TO HEED

      INTRODUCTION

      Metaphors of Mystery and Paradise

      THE FIRST MYSTERY – Initiation into the Mysteries and Rites of Passage – We are What we Emanate

      THE SECOND MYSTERY - Thought-Form on the Pattern of Mystery - We will go Towards that which we Seek to Know

      THE THIRD MYSTERY - Temples in the Sky - That Which Exists in Time is Completely Altered by the Existence of Timelessness 

      THE FOURTH MYSTERY - Ignition of the Eternal and Ancient Flame and the Breath of Life - The Ignition of the Ancient and Eternal Flame is made so Through the Energized Breath of God’s Life

      THE FIFTH MYSTERY - Entering Cosmic Consciousness or Conscious Lucidity - The Purpose of those Energies which Descend from God into the Soul is that they Become Silent Emanations

      THE SIXTH MYSTERY - Initiation into the Way of Life or Death - Choosing Life as your New Soul Configuration and Energetic Emanation

      THE SEVENTH MYSTERY - Rites of the Crucifixion and the Mechanism of Mercy - The Intake of the Power of Transformative Suffering so that the Path of Light and Sound may Arise within the Energetic Signature of the Soul

      THE EIGHTH MYSTERY - Pyramidal Initiations, the Book of the Eights and Mystery Corridors - To Transcend the Seven Realms of the Physical World and to Achieve the Eight, the Immortal, and to Receive Permanent  Inscription  into the Book of Life

      THE NINTH MYSTERY - Here, There and Always - To Attain to the Ability to Receive the Knowledge of the Energetic Truth which lies Behind every Action/Interaction or Object/Person

      THE TENTH MYSTERY - Cycles of Time – To Become Capable of Rendering End-Points to Karmic Cycles of Time into Birth-Points

      THE ELEVENTH MYSTERY - The Star of Bethlehem - To Take Within the Cells of the Spirit and Body that Which Becomes Birth Itself, the Messianic Potential

      THE TWELFTH MYSTERY - The Seven Levels of Heaven - To Contain the Knowledge and Travel the Seven Heavenly Spheres at Will to Bring that Which is Above to that Which is Below – the Entrance of the Shekinah Spirit

      THE THIRTEENTH MYSTERY - The Thunder Tribe

      The Great Day of Purification - To Obtain the Purified Unity of the Masculine and Feminine Constructs in Spirit and Energize the Thrust Wherein Karma Will Hit the Ground to Seek Further Purification

      THE FOURTEENTH MYSTERY - The Frequency of Otara and the Coming Forth for Thy Wings – To Obtain to the Frequency of the Angelic Hierarchy and Perform Service Rendering the Initiate Worthy of his Wings

      THE FIFTEENTH MYSTERY - The Mystery of the Sphinx, the Five Concentric Circles and the Loops into the Dimensions - To Obtain the Ethereal Construct of the Four Corners of Creation, Enter Disintegration of Spirit, and Obtain the Stamp of the ‘Immortal’ so as to Commence the Only True Quest

      THE SIXTEENTH MYSTERY - Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ark - To Fix our Heart on God . . . and Cease all Doing, Thinking, Being

      THE SEVENTEENTH MYSTERY - Ritual of the House of the Mysteries and the Garden of Eden - To Fix our Eyes on the Perfection of God . . . and Allow that Perfection to Energetically Bring Forth all Which we Are Both Good and Evil

      THE EIGHTEENTH MYSTERY - Initiations into all Multiplicities and the Mysteries of Memory - Knowledge Which Extends Beyond Time and into All Life; Human, Universal and Beyond and Touching into this Stream of Experiential Knowledge Expands the Parameters of Understanding, Energetic Knowledge and Wisdom Accessible to the Initiate

      THE NINETEENTH MYSTERY - Initiation and Descent of Karma - The Karmic Thrust Will not Cease its Rush to the Physical Spheres, Over and Over Again, Until the Soul has Confounded it Through the Wisdom of God

      THE TWENTIETH MYSTERY - Rites of the Ascension - Although the Only Constant of the Eternal is Change, the Initiate Must Unfold in his Ascension as a Changeless Continuity

      THE TWENTY FIRST MYSTERY - Initiations into the Holy Energies of the Saints and the Final Entry of the Soul into the Realm of the Ascended -Although Good and Evil Exist ‘Within the Program;’, When a Soul Achieves the Ascension and the Immortal and Eternal Nature, Duality no Longer Exists. As a Result, Darkness Becomes an Absence and Light Becomes a Fullness

      THE TWENTY SECOND MYSTERY - Rites of the Medicine and the Alteration of Reality - No Soul may Proceed Forth Until They have Learned to Give Back That Which has Been Taken From the High Frequency Energetic Flow of Evolution, and to Restore that Which has Been Lost Within Humankind

      Below

      THE TWENTY THIRD MYSTERY - Initiations into the Lower Afterlife (Hells and Purgatories) and the Mysteries of the Redemption (Christ’s Life) - For Without the Comprehensive Knowledge of Darkness, a Soul Cannot Achieve and Fortuitously Embalm the Truth of the Light Within Itself or Any Other

      THE TWENTY FOURTH MYSTERY - Initiations into the Higher Afterlife (Galactic Heavens) and Death as Initiation - None Can go With the Father Except by the Son, and Every Mystery Within the Context of Creation is Held Intact by This

      THE TWENTY FIFTH MYSTERY - Initiation into the Palace of Ancient Knowledge - It is Thus the Ancient Sacred Texts, the Knowledge Contained Within Them and the Vibration of Their Volumes which Ascends the Initiate to this Next Phase Upon the Pathway Into the City of the New Jerusalem

      THE TWENTY SIXTH MYSTERY - Initiations into Royal Captivity - Having Fallen from Grace in the Original Garden of Eden, the Initiate Must Restore Himself to the Purity which Transpired Before the Fall of Man in This Clandestine Epiphany of Perfect, Eternal and Unitive Love as Manifested Before the Disobedience of Man to Creator

      THE TWENTY SEVENTH MYSTERY - The Ritual Passage from this World into the Solitary Winds - To be Initiated Into the Solitary Winds Requires That the Initiate Be Released From all Attachments to Worldly Energies, Seeking to Grasp Only the Fine Thread of Virtue and to Leave Behind all Trace of Shadow in the Lingering Winds of Misuse

      THE TWENTY EIGHTH MYSTERY - Ritual of Re-Entry into the Enclosed Garden of God -To Shut Out Mortality in the Garment of Immortality, and to Return all Mortal Remnants to the World Below in an Ascending Pattern of Light; Locked Up, Always Ascending . . . With the Pattern of Diminution Forever Terminus. The Consummation of the Spirit with Almighty God Complete, Destination Final and Infinite

      A NOTE ON THE TWENTY EIGHT MYSTERIES

      SOURCES

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose

      The Revelation of the  Out-of-Body Travel Celestial Mysteries from the Enclosed Garden of God

      By Marilynn Hughes

      A PREFACE IN WHICH IT IS MOST WISE TO HEED

      From Compte St. Germain

      "

      INITIATION into the Mysteries was defined by the ancient philosophers as life’s supreme adventure and as the greatest good that can be conferred upon the human soul during its terrestrial sojourn. Plato, in the Phaedrus, writes thus of the supreme importance of acceptance into the sacred Rites: "Likewise, in consequence of this divine initiation, we become spectators of entire, simple, immovable and blessed visions in a pure light; and were, ourselves, pure and immaculate and liberated from this surrounding vestment which we denominated body, and to which we are now bound as an oyster to its shell.'

      St. Paul also refers to the inner experience by which we come to KNOW. He says, We speak of wisdom among the perfect, not the wisdom of this world, nor of the Archons (Rulers) of this world, but divine wisdom in a mystery, secret, which none of the Archons of this world know. An initiation is an extension of consciousness toward an appreciation of universal realities. The mystical ceremonials of the . . . early Christians were but the outward symbols of inward processes. By obscure rites and pageantries the precious arcana of perfection was transmitted from age to age. The profane were satisfied by the solemnity of the outward forms and rituals, but the Adepts, those who had received the keys, applied the wisdom which was locked within the allegories to perfecting their internal spiritual faculties.

      Origen, the most mystical of the anti-Nicean fathers, in his preface to St. John, admits the twofold nature of all theological revelations: "To the literal minded [or exoterici] we teach the Gospel in the historic way, preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified; but to the proficient, fired with the love of Divine Wisdom [the esoterici] we impart the Logos [the Word].

      Perfection is not bestowed: it is achieved. Men do not become wise merely through the witnessing of sacred dramas . . . rather, by the understanding of them. Symbolism is the language of divine truths, a writing by means of which may be intimated things which it is unlawful to actually reveal. For the mystic symbols are well known to us who belong to the Brotherhood. (Plutarch). By initiation the rule of works is established. The divine man and the divine in man are brought to completeness by works alone. The adepts of the old schools were wise Master Builders with vision to see, with courage to do, and wisdom to remain silent. There is a secrecy and silence observed in all Mysteries, wrote Tertullian, the creator of ecclesiastic Latinity.

      During the ceremonials of initiation the neophyte was given the LAW. The great verities by which the universe moves towards its inevitable identity with God were revealed. It remained for the Initiate to apply this Law and through this application to achieve conscious immortality. There is a forking of the ways of knowledge at which practice diverges from theory. A man may either fulfill the Law and thus by enlightened action come finally to perfection, or he may accept the word of the Law and, ignoring the spirit of it, remain as he is . . . imperfect and unenlightened. He who receives the LOGOS and abides in the spirit thereof gradually increases in wisdom. The Nazarean theurgists said of such a one that he had an oath. He was dedicated to the release of his inner part from the domination of his outer senses and appetites. Says Aretaeus, Until the soul is set free it works within the body and is obscured by vapors and clay. By vapors is arcanely signified the appetites and excesses of the emotions which are as substanceless as a mist, and by the clay is meant the unresponsiveness of the corporeal form.

      To increase in wisdom is to increase in enlightenment, for by enlightenment is inferred the illumining of the inner recesses of the reason by the light of the Logos—the spiritual sun. This development of the ability to know by philosophic discipline is accompanied by extensions of realization and appreciation. These extensions are the true growth of the soul which increases towards inclusiveness. Hence, in the sacred writings, this expansion of the soul’s sphere of action is called initiation. By initiation the indwelling divinity verges towards its own cause, the eternal Good. The chambers of initiation are the many mansions through which the indwelling divinity must pass as through the tortuous windings of the Cretan labyrinth. Along its course are many doors, through each of which it is ushered into a larger and more luminous area of function and action. With each increase of our ability to appreciate the magnitudes of the divine plan, we are said to be reborn. Rebirth is the passing out from an old condition into a new state, from an old limitation to a new extension. As we grow in knowledge, our universe seems to enlarge with us, taking on the measure of our new constitution. Wisdom releases.

      The academies of the old Mysteries invited the wisest and best of humanity to depart from the mortal shadow of worldliness and devote itself to those labors which are truly eternal. The perfection of Self is the Great Work, the beginning and end of wisdom: the perfected Self is the perfect offering and the consummation of the Great Work. He who is perfect is of the greatest use to others, the greatest good to himself and the most acceptable offering to the Most High."

      The Most Holy Trinosophia, Compte St. Germain, 1933

      INTRODUCTION

      Metaphors of Mystery and Paradise

      The Fragrance of the Mystical Rose are those things which are beyond words and lie only within the energetic spheres of knowledge. The Revelation of the Celestial Mysteries is the admittance of such spheres into words and understanding. The Enclosed Garden of God are the Initiations and Rites of Passage within which the Mysteries of God’s Mercy become energetically embodied within the soul . . . and the energetic potential becomes realized as the old man transforms into the new.

      The mechanism by which God forms and alters us into the potential in which we were once created -  from the dust in which we have become - is not unlike  the unfoldment of a rose blooming aside the very thorns from which its potential was born.

      The secrets and symbols that lie concealed within the herald of the images described in the writings of the great mystics – although they remain energetic in their constancy and fulfillment – must needs be opened up to the eyes of the faithful. Because as Christ said in Mark 8: 17-21 (Douay Rheims) Do you not yet see or understand?  Do you have a  hardened heart?  Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember . . . Do you not yet understand?

      Within lies the universal mechanics of the evolution and forward motion of universal energy within all spheres of knowledge. In essence - after the sometimes slow and sometimes instant heraldic turn of our eyes away from the lures of the physical waking world; sin, corruption, death and decay – we are initiated at once into the mechanism of the merciful love of the Universal Father; virtue, purity, life and continual growth. 

      For those who have read ‘The Hammer of Mysticism: An Encyclopedic Journey into Mystical Processes and Terms’, (By Marilynn Hughes) this is your next step. Now that you understand energetic battlefield from which your soul has emerged as it seeks to know God, it becomes of necessity to enter into the inner sphere of the Mystery of the Redemption.

      Within this mystery lies the Fragrance of a Mystical Rose, revealed through the Celestial Mysteries . . . but only to be found in the Enclosed Garden of God.

      Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds (The Holy Bible, Old Testament, Book of Wisdom 2:8)

      From Dante’s Mystic Rose

      "The sunlit rose that dominates the culminating cantos of the Paradiso proclaims the fulfillment of the poet’s long spiritual question. Purged of sin and perfected in holiness, he is granted a mystic vision of eternal glory. This vision is twofold: the poet first perceives a gigantic white rose on whose petals are enthroned the entire company of saints; he then lifts his eyes to the sun, symbol of God, shining down upon the rose. It has been noted that the dual nature of this vision corresponds to the two stages of mystic contemplation defined by St. Bernard, the first stage revealing the saints in glory and the second revealing God Himself, The rose, symbolizing the lower of these stages, serves as necessary precursor of the higher. Moreover, the symbols of sun and rose are  interdependent and ultimately inseparable. It is the sun that gives life to the rose and the rose that makes manifest the sun’s power and glory. A full comprehension of the mystic interrelation between the Creator and His creation marks the end of Dante’s journey and the highest attainment of spiritual vision."

      Dante’s Mystic Rose, Barbara Seward, Studies in Philology, 1955, University of North Carolina Press

      THE FIRST MYSTERY

      Initiations into the Mysteries and Rites of Passage

      We are What we Emanate

      Within the holy confines of the mystical kingdom of God, therein lies a realm of mystery and transformation which goes beyond the simple understandings of the flesh, the world and the energetic flows of the physical universes which reside below it.

      Within the gates of God’s enclosed garden lie the mechanisms by which the soul, once it has achieved adequate awakening and awareness of its transitory nature in any mortal realm, can seek to conquer the fleshly will and bring it within the context of that which is holy and good.

      These mechanisms are, in essence, the manner in which a soul now seeks to become something more. All souls were born as sinful creatures, the soul seeks to become flash point of light.

      And what is light but knowledge; so therefore, this old man now seeks to become a new man in the likeness and image of his Creator.

      As in Eden wherein no object of life was born corrupt, humankind has the capacity to override corruption within his own interiors. But there are mechanisms and processes by which such leaps of consciousness and substance are born.

      These lie in the Initiations into the Mysteries and the Rites of Passage, which contain within them the energetic power and thrust to slowly transform that which has been to that which has come into potential.

      And into being the new man is born; slowly methodically and with great mystery.

      But of what is the great mystery comprised? It is higher and higher gradations of love. Within these gradations, the sensitivities of the soul are heightened, its understanding awakened, its deliberate flaws slowly dismantled, and its vice abased. And in these processes something new emerges, the selfless creature who contains within him the energetic understanding of existence, and how such existence comes to enable and to act upon one and the other. And the genuine true compassion of God is born into the creature, just as it was on that first fateful day of creation, reborn anew – and as this soul becomes a point of light within the cosmic sea of windward evolution – potentials rise within the realm.

      By the very nature of every soul’s planetary and universal evolution, potentials rise for other forms of life and ensouled beings.

      So let it be . . . because love is the all transforming knowledge that so many seek to find. And it is a gift from God, given through His mighty hand in a sky filled with mysteries and in the grace of simple energetic thrusts which emanate within the soul to enshroud such mysteries within it carrying within the unfolding flowers of the holiness of the farther regions.

      And every human soul who seeks and finds this wondrous abode, becomes an enclosed garden. And although, every enclosed garden remains a mystery somehow, they also emanate.

      Herein lies the mystery of mysteries . . . in emanation.

      For we are what we emanate . . . this is the first mystery.

      From Contemplative Prayer

      In a word, the difference between heaven and hell is this: that hell is full of nothing but self-love and self-seeking, whereas not the least degree of either is to be found in heaven – nothing but to fulfil God’s will and to seek His glory. This is the happiness, the blessedness of the saints and angels, and in no other way can they love themselves but by loving God alone.

      Contemplative Prayer, By Dom B. Weld-Blundell, A Monk of the Order of St. Benedict, Teaching Thereon: From ‘Sancta Sophia’, 1657

      THE SECOND MYSTERY

      Thought-Form on the Pattern of a Mystery

      We will go Towards that which we Seek to Know

      If you but had wings to carry your thoughts into the spheres of the beloved, from whence would they come and to where would they go?

      Perhaps it is in this question that lies the answer to the mystery of the thought-forms which form in the pattern of mysteries; sometimes called temples in the sky and at other times called mysterious windows of perception into the infinite unknown.

      Yet, whose thoughts generate such compassionate and beautiful artifices of lovely splendor as these? For we have known our own thoughts, elsewise, we would not have traveled this road. Our own thoughts have been filled with vice, false enumerations and renderings of false truths that have led us astray into temple of self-worship and ill-gotten licentiousness.

      For we know that these thought-forms appearing before us in the sky are not self-generated; they have come to us from a higher world where thoughts are only generated on patterns of mystery and are never corrupted by human wanderings.

      Within them lies energetic knowledge of places yet unseen and wisdom only implied; their words come in the form of an essence, a certain knowledge of concepts above our previous human comprehension. But these concepts are so vast and delightful to our senses, we cannot help but grasp forward towards them in our hunger and thirst for the greater knowledge of creation, all that is . . . in essence, to greater know the God we have come to honor, revere and love in a human way.

      The human way is far inferior to that which we see melding out before us as temples, words, different dialects, faces, places and star systems far beyond the scope of our being. But human love of God is where the soul must begin . . . . and so it does.

      Although these thought-forms – which appear almost as if very methodically, even mathematically, placed upon grids of light behind them – reveal to the soul that there are patterns to mystery, there is order, there is grace, and there is beauty.

      We accept our human love of God as being sufficient for this time. Frankly, in the moment when the lingering papyrus or tunnels of great splendor show before us, there is only longing to know more deeply of them. The soul is yet incapable of recognizing its imperfect and human love of God.

      It can only stare in awe and homage, and wish to know Him more. 

      For we will go towards that which we seek to know . . . this is the second mystery.

      From St. Anselm

      Exhortation of the mind to the contemplation of God. ‑‑It casts aside cares, and excludes all thoughts save that of God, that it may seek Him. Man was created to see God. Man by sin lost the blessedness for which he was made, and found the misery for which he was not made. He did not keep this good when he could keep it easily. Without God it is ill with us. Our labors and attempts are in vain without God. Man cannot seek God, unless God himself teaches him; nor find him, unless he reveals himself. God created man in his image, that he might be mindful of him, think of him, and love him. The believer does not seek to understand, that he may believe, but he believes that he may understand: for unless he believed he would not understand.

      Exhortations of St. Anselm, Translated by Sidney Notre Deane, 1903

      THE THIRD MYSTERY

      Temples in the Sky

      That Which Exists in Time is Completely Altered by the Existence of Timelessness

      So, who art thou? Who goest there?!? Says the Guardian of the realm as the soul emerges upon a vast and delightful array of monuments hovering in the air above them. Perchance, if the soul knows the correct answer, he will be given passage. Perhaps . . .

      If there were a greater blessedness, the soul could not possibly know it at this moment as he hovers freely in the air; eyes glazed towards the monuments which stand in the ethereal winds above him as remnants and references to wisdom from the ancient past.

      What is today, will be tomorrow. What was yesterday, remains now. What will come to pass, has always been . . .

      But why? The soul may ask this thoughtful question within his burgeoning spiritual buttress as he attempts to ascend closer to that which contains within them the answers to all that he seeks.

      The smell of incense is strong in these realms; the fragrance of roses and other celestial scents that are reminiscent on earth. However, in the mystery realms, the scent is ever-present. It emanates from every dewdrop, every mystical breath and every container which flows through it.

      There is not a pore in the body of the soul that does not take in the fragrance as it still strives to answer the question having already been posed by the ominous yet powerfully sacred presence whom guards such a gate.

      In these mystery regions, the skies are filled with pink hues, adding to the illumination of the realm.

      Among the wordless mysteries hovering above the soul in these regions is timelessness.

      If there were a word to describe timelessness from a soul who has traveled its abode to one who has not, what would it be?

      In a place where all time, space, existence and non-existence are eternal; the soul breathes in imperishability, ceaselessness, perpetuality, lasting and unending being . . . the soul enters into immortality. Realizing that all that has been, is now and ever shall be has always been so and is reachable within the mystical spheres as a transient call from the spacious realm of absolute nothing, the soul realizes timelessness.

      For that which exists in time is completely altered by the existence of timelessness . . . this is the third mystery.

      From the Lama Odye Nydhal

      There is the timeless aspect which is like the ocean and there is the changing aspect inside time which is like the waves coming and going in the ocean.

      The Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Death and Rebirth, Lama Odye Nydhal, 2000, Buddhanet

      THE FOURTH MYSTERY

      Ignition of the Eternal and Ancient Flame and the Breath of Life

      The Ignition of the Ancient and Eternal Flame is made so Through the Energized Breath of God’s Life

      As if such a moment could be construed or held within the confines of the human mind; I shall again try to compose words which might contain within them a light or a shred of energetic power or potential to reveal the secrets which lie within.

      Though the Universe may present the ignition in any manner in which it may choose, my own ignition into the ancient flame began with seven fire pits.

      This number contains great significance because it yet recalls to mind the seven chakras, the

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